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Subject: Google Summer of Code
From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey)

Hi all,

Google are running the Summer of Code again this year, and Dan Brown
and I have tentatively agreed to act as organisation administrators if
we can get an application together. We have a week from today to
apply, but before we can, we need updated ideas. Our old ideas list is
at https://wiki.php.net/ideas =E2=80=94=C2=A0if we can get this cleaned up =
and
updated, then I can turn it into a single ideas page for our
application.

Here's a summary of what's there at the moment, the suggested mentors
(if your name is on this list, an indication of whether the idea is
still valid and whether you'd still be interested in mentoring would
be appreciated), and any thoughts I have on whether they're still
viable ideas. Updates welcome =E2=80=94 new ideas very very welcome.

- Automatic Code Checker (suggested mentor: Nuno Lopes): still sounds
like a good idea to me.

- Bugs Update (Philip Olson): this seems really thin for a whole
project. Are there other improvements currently pending that could
turn this into a broader refresh of the bug tracker?

- PHP/PECL Build Bot (Elizabeth Smith): sounds good, if we can get
hardware to support it.

- Zend Bytecode to LLVM Converter (Nuno Lopes): sounds good.

- Abstract Extension API and Dependency Interface (Brian Shire, Andrei
Zmievski): sounds good.

- CGI/FastCGI SAPI Improvement (Dmitry Stogov): pretty sure the merge
of FPM has made this moot.

- Get Involved - Writing it (Philip Olson): I think the GSoC
prohibition on documentation projects would prevent this.

- PHP-GTK documentation (no mentor): as above.

- Integrated Code Coverage of C and PHP Code (Sebastian Bergmann): sounds g=
ood.

- Patch Server (no mentor): could this link in with the Build Bot project a=
bove?

- PHP Authentication System (??): this is three years old =E2=80=94=C2=A0ma=
y still
be relevant, but the page itself would need a serious update.

- New Mirror Management System (Daniel Brown): not sure if this is
relevant =E2=80=94=C2=A0systems guys? Daniel?

- php.net search improvements (??): sounds good.

- PHP.net search SQLite wrapper (??): probably should be rolled into
the previous project.

- run-tests.php improvements (Zoe Slattery, Stefan Priebsch): sounds
good; I'd be prepared to mentor this if we needed to find a new
mentor, having just done a bit of exploratory work on this myself of
late.

- Revamping user comments at php.net (Philip Olson): might also be a
bit thin as written, but it depends on where it goes.

Remember, we're not limited to ideas on our ideas page (students can
also suggest ideas, and often do), but having a strong ideas page will
greatly enhance our chances of being accepted, particularly in light
of having missed the last couple of GSoCs.

As I said, both updates to the existing list and new ideas would be
very welcome, either here or on the aforementioned Wiki page.

Thanks,

Adam